“The people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when I painted them,” said artist Mark Rothko. More →

June 17, 2010

How have religion in general and the King James Bible in particular figured in America’s literary history? More →

May 11, 2010

Revisit our 2005 conversation about the iraq war with Anthony Shadid, who this week won his second Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. More →

April 15, 2010

Three movie watchers ponder the religious, spiritual, and moral themes in Avatar, Up, The Hurt Locker, and more. More →

March 5, 2010

Religion’s role in US foreign policy, gays in the military, and Mennonites and the national anthem were all in the news this past week. More →

February 26, 2010

Watch more of Bob Abernethy’s conversation with Rabbi Jack Moline about the theological questions raised by natural disasters such as the Haiti earthquake.  

January 29, 2010

Bhavana Gupta says her generation will go to a Hindu temple in New Delhi and say, “Let’s give the priest 500 rupees to have him do a good prayer service for us.” But the younger generation questions this traditional Hindu practice and asks why. More →

January 22, 2010

“Immigrant religion today is coming here to evangelize us and then to go back out to evangelize where they’re from,” says Dana Robert, professor of world Christianity and history of mission at the Boston University School of Theology. More →

January 8, 2010

“One important thing that religion brings to politics is a certain kind of realism about human nature and human possibilities.” More →

January 4, 2010

Religion and Ethics Newsweekly’s Kim Lawton highlights some of the key religion news stories from the past year in this special annual feature. More →

December 23, 2009